Comments on: Off topic : Teaching Tai Chi Chuan. http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/02/15/off-topic-teaching-tai-chi-chuan/ Science, technology and science fiction/Fantasy Tue, 25 May 2010 18:53:19 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: lurker http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/02/15/off-topic-teaching-tai-chi-chuan/comment-page-1/#comment-76 lurker Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:58:04 +0000 http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=250#comment-76 Well, Tai Chi is most known for the slow movement forms, although forms with fast movements exist - and I have learned some of those, too. After all Tai Chi Chuan - or in the modern spelling Taiji Quan (which is the correct term) is a Martial Art just like Aikido aand all the others. Of the martial arts Tai Chi is using a lot of the same philosophy as Aikido.(or the other way around, since Taichi is the oldest of the two) If you go to the Fedcon (hope you make it) you may be interested to know that Erin Gray (of Buck Rogers fame) is also an instructor of Tai Chi and has given workshops on many conventions. Hoping you will have some fun in the coming week end. I know very well what an injury can do to you. Well, Tai Chi is most known for the slow movement forms, although forms with fast movements exist – and I have learned some of those, too. After all Tai Chi Chuan – or in the modern spelling Taiji Quan (which is the correct term) is a Martial Art just like Aikido aand all the others. Of the martial arts Tai Chi is using a lot of the same philosophy as Aikido.(or the other way around, since Taichi is the oldest of the two)

If you go to the Fedcon (hope you make it) you may be interested to know that Erin Gray (of Buck Rogers fame) is also an instructor of Tai Chi and has given workshops on many conventions.

Hoping you will have some fun in the coming week end. I know very well what an injury can do to you.

]]> By: Starstuff http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/2009/02/15/off-topic-teaching-tai-chi-chuan/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Starstuff Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:12:14 +0000 http://www.babylonlurker.net/blog/?p=250#comment-75 That is so cool! I myself never got to do anything like it; the closest I came to any far-east movement-stuff was learning Aikido for a while, but that somehow never led to anything. Is Tai Chi the thing where you move really slowly in pre-defined movements? If the movements are pre-defined, is it really relaxing or does it take a lot to concentrate? You've got me so curious now, I'll go and search my iTunes library for the Tai Chi music I know I have there ... somewhere ... That is so cool! I myself never got to do anything like it; the closest I came to any far-east movement-stuff was learning Aikido for a while, but that somehow never led to anything.

Is Tai Chi the thing where you move really slowly in pre-defined movements? If the movements are pre-defined, is it really relaxing or does it take a lot to concentrate?

You’ve got me so curious now, I’ll go and search my iTunes library for the Tai Chi music I know I have there … somewhere …

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